MEEDS, Edwin Lloyd, a Representative from Washington; born in Dillon, Beaverhead County,
Mont., December 11, 1927; moved with his parents to Monroe, Snohomish County,
Wash., in 1944; graduated from Monroe High School in 1946; served in the United
States Navy from January 1946 to November 1947; graduated from Everett Junior
College in 1950; part owner-operator of gasoline station, 1950-1954; graduated
from Gonzaga University School of Law in 1958 and was admitted to the bar the
same year; deputy prosecuting attorney in Spokane and Snohomish Counties,
1958-1960, practiced law in Everett, Wash., 1960-1962; prosecuting attorney,
Snohomish County, 1962-1964; president of Snohomish County Young Democrats,
1960-1962; board member of Snohomish County Democratic Central Committee,
1961-1963; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-ninth and to the six succeeding
Congresses (January 3, 1965-January 3, 1979); was not a candidate for
reelection in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress; resumed the practice of law in
Washington, D.C.; died on August 17, 2005, in Church Creek, Md.